Dreamers

Karen Thompson Walker

One night in a college town in California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep and doesn’t wake up. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? A provocative novel about the possibilities contained within a human life.